article on Facebook: When you don’t want to be Facebook friends

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27775484/

Great video on technological dependence

dreamgirl41 posted a great youtube video about technological dependence that I wanted to repost to ensure peopel saw it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkWZTHAYrXI

gender in the field of technology: Thoughts?

jbotalan posted an interesting observation and link:

This is right along the same lines as the “OMG Girls don’t exist on the intarweb!” article we read a few weeks ago–on a blog I frequent, the response to a post featuring a female generates a huge response.

http://hackaday.com/2008/10/20/bjork-teaches-you-about-electronics/

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I thought that I would fuel the discussion with another story about wmen game developers:

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3168255

Questions about Stephenson text (2): How does technology influence time in the case of ractors?

Questions about Stephenson text (2): How does interactivity change production (or producing things like movies and other entertainment media)?

Questions about Stephenson text (2): In the text, how does prosthetic technology relate to class?

Questions about the Stephenson text: What is the CEP? What is their role in the story?

Questions about Stephenson text: What is a ractive? How is it important in the text so far?

Questions about Stephenson text: Is there an advantage to having Arts and Humanities input on technological development? Why or why not?

Questions about Stephenson text: What perspective/experiences on Arts and Humanities does Finkle-McGraw share with Hackworth?